Ezekiel 19
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
« Bongo yo, tinda nzembo ya mawa mpo na bakambi ya Isalaele mpe loba:
2 And say, What [is] thy mother: A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
‹ Mama na yo azalaki nani? Nkosi ya mwasi kati na bankosi! Ezalaki kovanda kati na bana na yango mpe kobokola bana yango.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
Ekolisaki moko kati na bana na yango, mpe mwana yango ekomaki nkosi moko ya makasi. Bongo, eyekolaki kopasola banyama mpe kolia bato.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
Bato ya bikolo ya bapaya bayokaki sango na yango mpe bakangaki yango na mitambo ya mabulu; bakangaki yango bibende na zolo mpe bamemaki yango na mokili ya Ejipito.
5 Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.
Tango mama ya nkosi yango emonaki ete elekisi tango ya pamba mpo na kozela mpe elikya na yango esili, ekamataki mwana mosusu kati na bana na yango, ekomisaki yango mpe nkosi ya makasi.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.
Ekomaki konguluma kati na bankosi, pamba te yango mpe ekomaki nkosi ya makasi. Eyekolaki kopasola banyama mpe kolia bato.
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, by the noise of his roaring.
Ekweyisaki bandako na bango ya makasi mpe ebebisaki bingumba na bango. Soki egangi, mokili mpe bato nyonso oyo bazalaki kuna bazalaki kotondisama na somo.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
Bongo bato ya bituka ya zingazinga, longwa na bikolo na bango, bayaki kotelemela yango, batielaki yango mitambo na bango mpe bakangaki yango kati na mabulu na bango.
9 And they put him in custody in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
Bakangaki yango minyololo, bakotisaki yango kati na ndako ya banyama, bamemaki yango epai ya mokonzi ya Babiloni. Babwakaki yango na boloko mpo ete mongongo ya koganga na yango eyokana lisusu na bangomba ya Isalaele te.
10 Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Mama na yo azalaki lokola nzete ya vino kati na elanga na yo ya vino, oyo elonama pembeni ya mayi, ezalaki kobota bambuma ebele, ezalaki na bitape ebele mpo ete mayi mpe ezalaki ebele.
11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her hight with the multitude of her branches.
Bitape na yango ezalaki makasi, ezalaki malamu mpo na kosala mangenda ya bokonzi, ezalaki molayi makasi koleka banzete mosusu; eyebanaki makasi mpo na molayi na yango mpe mpo na ebele ya makasa na yango.
12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
Kasi bapikolaki yango na kanda mpe babwakaki yango na mabele. Mopepe ya este ekawusaki yango, ekweyisaki mbuma na yango, ekawusaki mpe bitape na yango ya makasi mpe moto etumbaki yango.
13 And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
Mpe sik’oyo baloni yango kati na esobe, mokili oyo ekawuka mpe ezanga mayi.
14 And fire hath gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a scepter to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Moto ebimi longwa na moko ya bitape na yango mpe etumbi mbuma na yango; ata etape moko te ya makasi etikalaki mpo na kosala lingenda ya bokonzi. › Yango nde ezali nzembo ya mawa mpe esengeli koyemba yango lokola nzembo ya mawa. »
